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Obama Is ‘First Hispanic President,’ Geraldo Rivera Says
cnsnews.com ^ | March 20, 2009 | Penny Starr

Posted on 03/20/2009 11:49:10 AM PDT by Free ThinkerNY

(CNSNews.com) – Journalist and TV personality Geraldo Rivera summed up the optimism of pro-immigrant activists and mostly Democrat politicians at the 13th annual U.S.-Mexico Congressional Border Issues Conference by saying he is confident President Barack Obama will keep his campaign promise to sign “comprehensive immigration reform” into law.

“Barack Obama is the first Hispanic president the same way Bill Clinton was the first black” president, Rivera said at the conference, which took place Thursday at the U.S. Capitol.

Rivera also said the Hispanic community should “give the president some slack” in keeping that promise on immigration reform, given the pressing problems with the economy and other priorities, including health care.

At the conference’s morning panel, experts and activists called on the Obama administration to champion “rational” immigration reform that would give the estimated 12 to 14 million people who are in the country illegally a path to citizenship.

Panelist Kathleen Walker, past national president of the American Immigration Lawyers Association, said she wanted to avoid the “A-word,” or amnesty, but said there is a direct link between the future health of the economy and the millions of illegal aliens who are working in the United States.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aliens; bho2009; bho44; geraldo; geraldorivera; hispanic; illegalaliens; immigration; rivera
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To: brytlea

>>> Good point. What I don’t get is why they have him on F&F and fawn all over him. I turn the station when he comes on. <<<

Me Too, I cant stand to look at him or listen to his commie junk


41 posted on 03/20/2009 12:10:06 PM PDT by Eagle50AE (Pray for our Armed Forces.)
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To: Eagle50AE

He imagines himself to be an intellect. He’s clearly not.


42 posted on 03/20/2009 12:11:27 PM PDT by brytlea (Jesus loves me, this I know.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

>>should “give the president some slack”<<

Sure, the same amount of slack President Bush got!


43 posted on 03/20/2009 12:12:33 PM PDT by NTHockey (Rules of engagement #1: Take no prisoners.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Geraldo is one of the specific reasons I really don’t watch FNC any more.


44 posted on 03/20/2009 12:14:59 PM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Funny stuff from a complete imbecile.


45 posted on 03/20/2009 12:16:08 PM PDT by Luke21
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To: brytlea

Bumper sticker on limo in Washington, DC:

“Politician - will Sell Soul for Votes”

Not really, but I wouldn’t be surprised to see one!


46 posted on 03/20/2009 12:19:15 PM PDT by HiJinx (~ Support Our Troops ~ www.AmericaSupportsYou.mil ~)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

““Barack Obama is the first Hispanic president “

Yes, as opposed to being a US president. Hate to tell you, Jeraldo.....the entire country isn’t ‘hispanic’.....yet.


47 posted on 03/20/2009 12:22:12 PM PDT by AuntB (The right to vote in America: Blacks 1870; Women 1920; Native Americans 1925; Foreigners 2008)
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To: HiJinx

And sadly, it’s TRUE!


48 posted on 03/20/2009 12:22:42 PM PDT by brytlea (Jesus loves me, this I know.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Geraldo’s an even bigger douchebag than the John Edward character on South Park.


49 posted on 03/20/2009 12:23:18 PM PDT by Two Kids' Dad (((( Two Kids' Dad ---- (T) - CA ** Join the "T" party ** ))))
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Geraldo would open the borders to all Mexicans. He makes his own news.....regardless if there is any news.


50 posted on 03/20/2009 12:25:43 PM PDT by RC2 (http://www.youtube.com/user/Funbobbasso)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Who is this maggot? Didn’t he blow his fame in the 1980’s?


51 posted on 03/20/2009 12:34:06 PM PDT by wac3rd (In the end, we all are Conservative, some just need their lives jolted to realize that fact.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

I keep doing math and the number of illegals is 18 million and we can document only 7 million working.......

What are the other 11 million doing???????????


52 posted on 03/20/2009 12:35:44 PM PDT by wac3rd (In the end, we all are Conservative, some just need their lives jolted to realize that fact.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Why is CNS concentrating on what Mr. Capone’s Vault says, when what Pelosi said at the same event is more important since she’s a lawmaker?

I posted this yesterday, and I’ve since added video:

http://24ahead.com/pelosi-doubles-down-family-separating-raids-are-not-american


53 posted on 03/20/2009 12:52:35 PM PDT by lonewacko_dot_com
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To: Free ThinkerNY

WoW when will a black president just be black? Or a more importantly— just a president who will protect and defend our rights, rather than snipping them away right and left? If we get a hispanic president, what color will he be called? ;) just askin!


54 posted on 03/20/2009 12:53:50 PM PDT by Freedom2specul8 (Please pray for our troops.... http://www.americasupportsyou.mil/)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

55 posted on 03/20/2009 12:58:08 PM PDT by ari-freedom ( Hail to the Dork!)
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To: JDoutrider
yup, that Geraldo

56 posted on 03/20/2009 12:59:06 PM PDT by ari-freedom ( Hail to the Dork!)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Geraldo claimed he was a Republican this morning on F&F.

He then proceeded to poo-poo the morning news about Obama’s bad joke on Leno and give Obama cover as it being a minor, insignificant indiscretion.


57 posted on 03/20/2009 1:07:14 PM PDT by TomGuy
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To: JDoutrider

WOW I thought I was the only one who felt that way...Geraldo is a disgrace.


58 posted on 03/20/2009 1:19:20 PM PDT by Kackikat (It isn''t over till it's over, and it s not over yet.....when the TRUMPET sounds I'll be gone...)
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To: Mad Dawgg

“Geraldo was on Fox and Friends this AM and claimed he is a registered Republican.”

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA


59 posted on 03/20/2009 1:20:46 PM PDT by Kackikat (It isn''t over till it's over, and it s not over yet.....when the TRUMPET sounds I'll be gone...)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Each time this street-talking jackass appears on Fox, the channel loses me and I suspect tens of thousands of others.


60 posted on 03/20/2009 2:07:29 PM PDT by Steelfish
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